1. Confidence in visual detection, familiarity and recollection judgements is preserved in schizophrenia spectrum disorder
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Martin Rouy, Michael Pereira, Pauline Saliou, Rémi Sanchez, Wassila el Mardi, Hanna Sebban, Eugénie Baqué, Childéric Dezier, Perrine Porte, Julia Micaux, Vincent de Gardelle, Pascal Mamassian, Chris J.A. Moulin, Clément Dondé, Paul Roux, Nathan Faivre, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC ), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Centre Hospitalier de Versailles André Mignot (CHV), Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Paul Brousse-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay, Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne (CES), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris School of Economics (PSE), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs (LSP), Département d'Etudes Cognitives - ENS Paris (DEC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Neurosciences, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), CHU Grenoble, and European Project: 716058,EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC),ERC-2016-STG - ERC Starting Grant,DeNovoImmunoDesign(2017)
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[SCCO]Cognitive science ,psychosis ,confidence ,metacognition ,meta-perception ,schizophrenia spectrum disorder ,meta-memory - Abstract
An effective way to quantify metacognitive abilities is to ask participants to estimate their confidence in the accuracy of their response during a cognitive task. A recent meta-analysis1raised the issue that most assessments of metacognitive abilities in schizophrenia spectrum disorders may be confounded with cognitive deficits, which are known to be present in this population. Therefore, it remains unclear whether the reported metacognitive deficits are metacognitive in nature, or rather inherited from cognitive deficits. Arbitrating between these two possibilities requires equating task performance between experimental groups. Here, we aimed to characterize metacognitive performance among individuals with schizophrenia across three tasks (visual detection, familiarity, recollection) using a within-subject design, while controlling experimentally for intra-individual task performance and statistically for between-subject task performance. In line with our hypotheses, we found no metacognitive deficit for visual detection and familiarity judgements. While we expected metacognition for recollection to be specifically impaired among individuals with schizophrenia, we found evidence in favor of an absence of a deficit in that domain also. The clinical relevance of our findings is discussed in light of a hierarchical framework of metacognition.
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- 2023